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The lift took me to Bad Gastein. I then had a race against time to taxi back to Angertal to return my gear. 10 minutes to spare, tight but a success none-the-less.

We attempted après ski at the umbrella bar, capacity 100, currently 200 people inside, one of whom was behind the bar. This was not the place for the thirsty. Patience was not optional. Waiting there though was. We went across the road to ...

Great news: today is the day we are going to go off piste with Hannis! Hannis is the original snowboarder. Completely mad. Amazingly cool. He was itching to get away, the powder is better in the morning. "Waaaahhhhooooo!" was his warcry after being on the powder for just 10 seconds. He didn't stop hollering all morning. He told us the rules, fitted us with GPS broadcasting devices for our safety and showed me the most exhausting morning of boarding ...

... old trails. I arrived at Hegblooms bang on time, the time I said I’d be there, not a second early or late. This sadly is a little unusual for me though I genuinely think I’m getting better on average now. After 5 minutes stood timidly at the bar, sending reminder texts, my suspicion grew that perhaps the boys weren’t going to join me. If I am going to dance on the tables this après ski, I’m going to have to go make new friends.

... I think you are going to like it, it goes like this…" oh man, it was all difficult, and so much fun. “Listen guys, you are freestylers now, this is where it starts getting fun, you can’t just do the turns anymore”. My thighs are going to hurt tomorrow. These jumps and tricks completely transform how I see the mountain. Blue runs: these used to be pain in the ****, trying and failing to keep up with my ski ...

... a snowball on the back of your hand - to do this you won a beer, I won a beer, but I had it revoked since I had stood Julian up the night before: I’d expected I could convince my buddies to head to Bad Gastein for old times sake but we got distracted with Bad Hofgastein’s offerings.

The après ski was at umbrella. The chap who offered to look after my wig was still wearing it, good lad, I asked him to continue to ...